Tweets from 2014/02
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@c_hedborg just cup your hands
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@c_hedborg use irc errryday
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Still faintly envious of those people at university who visibly found their people and relaxed into life.
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@leighalexander nerds
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@leighalexander so, I once ran for president of the Edinburgh Science Fiction & Fantasy Society.
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@leighalexander nah, we all gave a speech, but I lost because the winning candidate promised to knit a giant banner.
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@leighalexander uni society voting was always disappointingly free of political tensions.
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@leighalexander I think I'd have to like, start on a PhD. Or at least move back to Edinburgh.
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@leighalexander and as far as I know, she never did. Lies and broken promises!
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@leighalexander just about resisting the temptation to cc her in on this conversation.
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@smestorp @leighalexander I will! Though I know fewer and fewer people up there these days
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@patrickashe When the Pawn Hits the King...
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@HilariousCow @nickludlam @chrisoshea fraps is old school -- had more luck with OBS. And there was another, but I can't recall right now.
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@bfod Puzzle Bobble at the same time as The Resistance would be doable, and probably quite fun.
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@bfod Lemon Joust & MEGA-Bastard.
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The thrill of discovering something you're really bad at in new and interesting ways.
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@leighalexander @edclef I said computer games I think up until I entered the industry. S'better anyway.
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@leighalexander I beat Si's Jinteki deck twice in a row with core Criminal tonight, it was great.
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@psychicteeth where's your musucbag now, huh?
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@webbedspace Leon, I'm sorry. I really enjoy your tweets, but I've come to take them for granted. I will try to fav more.
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@leighalexander "vtwentyone", unsurprisingly.
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RT @asponge: Coming up in 5 minutes: Dark Souls Nites plays Sunday out, kissing an old week goodbye and tidying up for the new. http://t.co…
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@yujily ah shit, I only just remembered it was your going away thing now. :< Hope you're having a great evening!
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@yujily Yeah, of course! Still see you off properly.
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Why do CCG fans have such awful awful taste?
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@sam_cook Just casually browsing chaoscards.co.uk/accessories-c1/deck-boxes-c3
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@sam_cook hoping against better experience to find something I actually want to own.
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I just want some card sleeves & a deck box that don't look awful. Is that so hard? (yes)
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@sam_cook There's not even a nice clear plastic one! But yeah, I am planning to laser myself one eventually. Also custom Netrunner tokens.
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Boo, can't watch @asponge's Twitch stream because @asponge is using all the bandwidth up streaming her Twitch stream.
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@patrickashe I think he sounds like a boring old man ranting at you in a pub often, but still : fuck unfettered IP law.
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@patrickashe like, there is no God-given right, not even an inbuilt feeling to having ideas be your possession til the end of time.
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@patrickashe (inbuilt feeling I could do I with researching more, but: an idea of "property" is a human universal, but that doesn't extend..
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@patrickashe ..to ideas.)
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@patrickashe yeah, but GoG have exclusive licence to these games. And most of their tech is freely available.
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@patrickashe we'll see what John Walker says, but I don't think he'll argue that GoG can't sell it, just that they shouldn't have a monopoly
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@pintendo64 @patrickashe pssst... I've got like, loads of those decals. Dya want one?
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@DGoodayle the people vulnerable to this are the ones who are a bit clueless, or sufficiently metrics-focused. ie, they don't have fans.
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@DGoodayle to be fair, I am pretty sure I don't have any fans (who aren't within the games industry)
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Disappointed by Target's poor selection of sofas #indiegames
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London Indies is on tonight! All evening, at The Crown, Angel, Islington. Come along!
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@fastramdesign Can a loveseat be art? Can ottomans be art? Can futons be art? Can Hello Kitty beanbags be art? Can a dedicated gamer chair b
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Also I'll be bringing Vita decals with Alphabet and Tenya Wanya Teens on them.
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@mooonmagic happppppy birthdaaaaaay!
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I don't have a Vita, though.
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I'll bring my 3DS, though. Maybe we will Streetpass but not talk, and through exploration of each others houses in ACNL form a deep bond?
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@KommanderKlobb I never gave you any, did I? Man, I suck at this. Yes, I will.
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@pintendo64 You can go back. You can make it right. You can make ________ a real town again.
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@pintendo64 That's hard. Pecan moved out on me recently. I know, Pecan, I hadn't paid enough attention to you. But did you have to leave?
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@KommanderKlobb @rclarke Can't recall if me questioning the basic conceit of @Carachan1's series made it into her profile of me.
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@KommanderKlobb @rclarke @Carachan1 ie the community of devs I feel I belong to is mainly not in London (and I see them pretty often)
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Rah rah London! British indie devs are the best indie devs! I definitely feel nationalism is the most important thing when making games!
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@leighalexander Right, I do actually agree with that. This is mainly unease with dev-representing bodies that go heavy on Britain.
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@leighalexander Or the country-based breakdowns for IGF nominations that sometimes happen (though those are interesting, but...)
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@Carachan1 @KommanderKlobb @rclarke Yeah -- but like, every bit of work I have on right now is a collaboration with people not in Britain.
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@Carachan1 @KommanderKlobb @rclarke Yeah, the conceit is actually super valid (& interesting!). But more interesting when questioned.
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@Carachan1 @KommanderKlobb @rclarke I am always fascinated to go to foreign meetups & hackerspaces, and see how they operate differently.
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@Carachan1 @KommanderKlobb @rclarke but also, despite differences, I still usually feel at home in them, which says something.
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@metasynthie hate crumpets
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@scanters Well, you can only wear about two at once, and then another 2 for when those are in the wash... 5?
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@pozorvlak I like this article: exiledonline.com/war-nerd-apocalypse-never/
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@metasynthie @botherer @smestorp I don't know how to work out what "reasonable" would be in this context. Seems like v hard problem.
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@pintendo64 ooooh, goddamn.
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@metasynthie @smestorp @botherer Why does that seem less likely? Because you're porting, and so taking up all mindshare?
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@rclarke Right, but the alternative to this isn't this stuff not being re-released, but stuff getting public-domained.
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@rclarke Honestly, I think the question is : does extending copyright longer than 20/30 years make a substantial difference to the...
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@rclarke ... motivation the creators would have in making it?
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@rclarke That people get paid for their work beyond that consideration doesn't seem like a good basis for law to me.
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RT @CourtNewsUK: Younger Chuckle Brother Paul reprimanded for speaking in the first-person plural.
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RT @CourtNewsUK: Breaking: Chuckle Brothers *not* permitted to enter witness box together
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@rclarke But won't that active life include ongoing dev? Or is ie Dota not the kind of thing you're thinking of?
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@metasynthie @michelmcbride @bfod @smestorp the worst of the current system is when rights just get lost, which this doesn't help.
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@metasynthie @michelmcbride @bfod @smestorp Would be happier about long terms if you had to register your rights at some point to keep 'em.
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Oh, this looks beautiful. Anyone wanna publish a boardgame? eriksvedang.com/slice-and-dice/ (cc @PluralGames @e_svedang)
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@rclarke but ... you can download the original Spelunky for free, and that hasn't stopped the new versions from selling?
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@rclarke Like, yeah free downloads, open source with NC restrictions (as orig Spelunky has) and public domain are different, but not so much
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right, but the impressive thing about the new Twitter redesign is that it managed to happen without even needing to reload the page
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@vorrintal @Robin_B well, I clicked "Home" from "Connect", and then it happened.
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Ladies... I'm available... vine.co/v/MauYa959EFw
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@patrickashe I'd say you got unfollowed by accident, but I know you'd not believe me.
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@patrickashe so: yes: it was on purpose.
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@patrickashe I just want fried chicken
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@Carachan1 too right, @patrickashe deserves that kind of language.
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@patrickashe @Carachan1 I'm trying to take a balanced perspective on myself, but I can't even read this message
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@pintendo64 terrible secret vine
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@pintendo64 well, up your game, then. ...
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@pintendo64 I really hope I eat some massive chicken. Partly because of you, partly because of eating massive chicken.
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@psychicteeth fav
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@patrickashe fav
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@patrickashe I genuinely favved that!
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Wonder if I'll make chicken by 3 am.
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lil kimchi good chicken vine.co/v/MaWK1aiqnTe
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@pintendo64 I've had a lot a lot of chicken tonight.
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@pintendo64 also, like, look at this thing
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@pintendo64 07% and I don't care
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@pintendo64 yeaAAaaaah
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Lot of chicken...
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@pintendo64 I just did. It's awful. Don't do it.
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@Dick_Hogg We had Kyary at the last one, too. Maybe this is a "thing" now?
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@PerrinAshcroft @ElectronDance our Unity dialogue system is built from GOTOs and Twine.
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@HilariousCow I used to write up ongoing projects on the windows...
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@PerrinAshcroft @ElectronDance Yeah -- so each conversation is it's own Twine file. Dialogue options are multiple links to new passages.
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@PerrinAshcroft @ElectronDance Then there's a asset processor which converts ie "Claire : Hello" to "yield return Says(claire, @"Hello");"
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@Carachan1 You could be if you wanted.
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Bloody immigrants nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/early_times/elizabeth.htm
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I just learned what sound a baby seal makes youtube.com/watch?v=RM2f0vOxcFc&feature=youtu.be
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@doougle I can live with that, especially as he never said it was impossible, or that people aren't doing it. Still pretty uncommon!
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@doougle Looking forward to the day Wild Rumpus puts on a longer-than-a-day display, and to see how well we do.
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@tassosstevens So London is redeemed by the presence of Croydon?
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@Carachan1 @108 @notquitereal yup, "sweating", "breathing", everything I was led to expect is currently happening.
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@martinhollis Love Zendo! There's a bunch of fiddly stuff with points I usually ignore, but the pattern-finding is great.
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@patrickashe @psychicteeth yep yep
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@psychicteeth @patrickashe been hankering after dim sum for a while now...
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Built my first Netrunner deck this morning! I wonder if it works...
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@doougle @raiganburns @ColinNorthway I find Twitter super useful for this stuff, because it lets you have a conversation.
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@ColinNorthway @doougle @raiganburns I think so! I'm always sceptical of this, though. The average blog doesn't seem more nuanced to me...
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But it's taking me towards Chinese food, friends and dancing, so I'll forgive it.
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@pintendo64 gonna get a phone which extends when you push the button on the side
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@psychicteeth @patrickashe I'm barely at Aldgate, so... Anyway, Bo En isn't on til 8, so we should be fine.
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@psychicteeth @patrickashe oh jeez, just saw the previous tweet. Good luck have fun
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Man next to me describing this bus as a "classic bus"
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@psychicteeth crawling through Holborn atm... no idea how long it'll be.
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@psychicteeth now I'm just walking. 15 mins?
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Netrunner or cocktails or answering emails or crawling into a hole and sleeping for a million years: the eternal dilemma.
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Gonna be mean about something I shouldn't... sorry...
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chrispriestman.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/announcing-warp-door/ Warp Door is clearly gonna cover lots of great stuff, but neither of them are that good as writers. I wish they were.
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@mcclure111 @m1sp and yet for some reason git is insanely complex so it can support multiple workflows.
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@c_hedborg oh! that's amazing
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I want a Unity editor plugin that generates a hum that tells you whether your framerate is good and what's it being spent on.
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@Carachan1 @psychicteeth he made me eggs in the morning
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@smestorp I know, I know! But still. I wish they were.
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@tigershungry it's a good thing, too, given how many you get!
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This ukulele band has a social media manager.
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@weetim So: in truth, I'm actually more familiar with Chris's writing than yours, and was more thinking of his writing. I'd probably ...
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@weetim ... say that your writing is functional and up to the task to which it's put. Chris's usually seem like they'd benefit from being...
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@weetim ...edited down pretty heavily. Writers I like : I like the passion & the occasional hyper-focusing on great details of Porpentine.
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@weetim I'm biased, because we're friends, but Alice O'Connor at Shacknews really knows how to make a press release actually entertaining.
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@weetim That's a different beat, though. And other writers who I love are doing even less comparable jobs (ie Tim Rogers).
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like, seriously, do Americans not believe in sofas or something?
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@tigershungry morning Marie !
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@MagInTheSmoke For just headers, or body copy?
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"Steve gaynor said... 0451 has come up a number of times at work." hitselfdestruct.com/2008/07/0451.html
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@nickludlam @jonty "No criminal stigma."
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@asponge yup!
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Can't wait to be done with this travelling, so I can go do travelling elsewhere
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@patrickashe I hope it plays airhorn.wav when it's opened
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@AsherVo got a rendering bug on startup here. iPad mini, iOS 7. The threes intro animation popped into the center
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@jonbro no, no, it's great as it is. +10 Starkness
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@john_brindle oh! Good fucking work! Stand tall!
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@john_brindle yep! I saw (was initially confused why I was cc'd, but it makes loads of sense now)
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@pintendo64 I've heard this before, but never known What The Deal Is
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@pintendo64 oh jeez, okay
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On my laptop at a vegan cafe in East London, next to a man talking about an Arduino-based synth they're Kickstarting I saw at GameCity.
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@TRUTRUTRULUV @psychicteeth Ban Ki Moon
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@hannahnicklin which is ... a good thing?
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@AlanZucconi Gallery cafe
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Last night, this happened : @Moranfox/432309464948277248/photo/1 (just putting on my jacket to leave the bar...)
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I miss that little mouse.
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@rclarke no, the ototo
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Hm. Apparently I don't have any food. Who wants to feed me?
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@guided1 A wild mouse.
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@penguat Stepney!
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@sam_cook tempting! but since I also have to tidy my room, I think I'll just ... go to the shop. The worst of all fates.
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@steishere I think the issue might be a confusion between velocity & acceleration?
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@steishere Which, I think, can both at any instant be described by a single axis, but not necessarily the same one.
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@leighalexander @Quinns108 ooooh CONGRATS
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@penguat ah, it's okay, i have to tidy my room & sort thing &c. But thanks for the offer!
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This is a good bit of writing on Flappy Bird blog.radiator.debacle.us/2014/02/an-alternate-history-of-flappy-bird-we.html
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Also a handsome red exercise book titled "Revision". Absolutely nothing inside.
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@patrickashe wanna fi isn't his zine before I disappear from the country?
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@Rinzence who am I supposed to believe, you or the official guide?
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@Rinzence maybe they've put out a errata slip...
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@steveklabnik I mean, it's a lot more obvious in NR, you can usually predict it as soon as you know identities.
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Lookit! Splintercades! cc @joonturbo RT @tigershungry: BBBBZZZZZRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGV Instagram.com/p/kNet2QS8fX/
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"I link spotify to my jambox" - Rupert Murdoch
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@steveklabnik right, where it's trad : early : runner advantage, mid : corp advantage, late : runner again.
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@xShrewsbury I would like for this to exist! Probably not enough to build it, though.
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@garblefart wasn't me! Was @radiatoryang wot wrote it. But : yes, I really love that too.
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@garblefart @radiatoryang nae worries!
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@adrianhungate the bar staff took him out in some golden cocktail shakers
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@Tom_OBedlam @alexhern @Quinns108 @Nelsormensch RE Inside Job: but is he sitting on a toilet? It looks like he's on the toilet.
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@retroremakes Look, the thing is : they've already written the code. It'd be wasteful not to shoehorn it in anywhere they could.
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@tigershungry I really think this could be the future of Wild Rumpus : recode.net/2014/02/09/the-2500-person-tech-mixer-that-was-not-a-party/
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@Rinzence @tigershungry !!! Please do!
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@jcoglan the advice I have always heard when setting up a CoC is "find one you like, then modify it to apply better to your circumstances"
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@jcoglan Which isn't to say I disagree with you -- I don't know if I do. But that changes are not surprising, or widely frowned on.
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@failnaut yes
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@jcoglan worth pointing out you're assuming a single organizer, rather than a community-run space.
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@smestorp @patrickashe who isn't part of *some* scene?
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@smestorp @patrickashe point. Still, there's never a "view from nowhere". And I've always argued that the marketing is part of a game.
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@smestorp @patrickashe No, I'm saying the marketing is part of the game. Which, yes, necessarily excludes some people from making some games
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@smestorp @patrickashe (which is sucky, and I don't like it, and I want to minimize it, but)
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@smestorp @patrickashe well, part of the game that it's marketing. But also part of the other games, of course. This is a kind of sidetrack,
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@smestorp @patrickashe but I guess my larger point is that games are not divisible from the culture they're embedded in. Which impacts this.
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@tigershungry "bringing consciously designed spaces and innovative thinkers together to inspire"
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@patrickashe @nachimir See, I click the "Extract All Files" button, so I end up with an unnecessary folder if they do that...
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@tef imagine someone rhythmically chewing gum, eyes flicking around over your shoulder as they gesture to an inflatable twister mat.
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I should do... a bunch of stuff.
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@nachimir look what I found! Does it make sense for the suitcase? Also, when do you want to come get it?
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Are you, by some coincidence, going to be in SF on March 19th? Well, maybe you'd like to come to thatvenuspatrolwildrumpusparty.com/
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We have not yet announced a lineup, but that retweet might hint at something that might appear on it...
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@sam_cook I never responded to this! For sure I will teach you Netrunner!
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@bfod if anything, it feels more like a keepy-uppy football game.
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I'm leaving the country for a month next week?!
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@robertpeacock22 this, I'm pretty sure. Otherwise : 3 weeks, last year.
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@martinhollis thanks! I'm to Toronto, New York, San Francisco.
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@failnaut it's true! I am on tour before GDC
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@psychicteeth @nickludlam ONE other one?
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RT @frankcifaldi: Good news the #1 free game on iOS is called Fly Birdie Flappy Bird Flyer
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@st33d p sure Stacks (and Dictionaries) don't serialize, but [Generic] Lists do.
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@st33d you might not be ready for this yet, but when you feel comfortable with Lists, come ask me about Linq...
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@pintendo64 @psychicteeth ah, fuck, that really sucks, I feel really bad about that
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we really need to get a code of conduct in for london indies [and london game space [and ...]]
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not that that makes things good in itself, but
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drunk twitter is unsatisfying, who wants to drunk hangout?
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@psychicteeth literally me right now
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the thing is, if people knew what was inappropriate and what is not, they (generally!) wouldn't do inappropriate things
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@patrickashe @psychicteeth first one that came to mind; I would prefer if it laid out what consequences and procedures were in place.
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@patrickashe @psychicteeth (which, like them, is tricky for us, residing in a pub we don't have any power to bar people from)
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@dmnddst there's a lot of work been done on this. tl;dr : sometimes? also public shaming is tricky to do right.
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@st33d It's so good. But only once you're ready.
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@schonstal In a philosophical way, sure. More practically: if you keep guessing wrong, get out of my community til you get better at it.
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@psychicteeth @patrickashe I also said procedures. Which are more important than consequences, as they give people reassurance that it's...
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@psychicteeth @patrickashe ..worth coming forward. (*I am not an expert, just saying what I understand*)
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@edjeff @Carachan1 and I very much enjoyed this list, despite slight eerieness of having seen that broken speaker system.
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@xShrewsbury "georgebuckenham"
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@awesommelier I work in videogames
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@awesommelier true, true. does wine have pitched feminist battles? videogames certainly does.
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@radiatoryang never even heard of it!
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@joonturbo @ADAMATOMIC ahhh! I think I faintly remembering pooh-poohing the idea then? Ha. (& not mad, just wanting to complicate the story)
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@joonturbo @ADAMATOMIC well, Doom Piano wasn't even my idea.But I take credit for insisting that it would be 88 keys or it would be bullshit
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@jonbro @PistachioRoux holy! Have a great day! Congratulations!
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If Scotland gains independence, the Scotland they make would be somewhere I'd want to live.
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Wish there were more resources for drafting Codes of Conduct for things that aren't conferences. Link me if you know some?
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@Gillespionage i will teach you! (but you might need to wait for me to get back from the states)
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@Gillespionage yeah! sure!
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@andreaszecher @LondonGameSpace various of us will be, yes!
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@smestorp @leighalexander @scd yeah, the whole "the Japanese will eat our lunch" 80s thing is at once p cyberpunk, but also a tinge racist.
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"Aren't tanukis known for having large testicles in Japanese mythology? " koryos.tumblr.com/post/76185499812/arent-tanukis-known-for-having-large-testicles-in
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@patrickashe but... but... writing is hard...
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@terrycavanagh @xShrewsbury @patrickashe well, but that's reversible. & if that's the price to pay for an enforceable CoC, then...
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@brandonnn ah, i like it! I like that we're all used to viewing stupidly distorted cut out images and think "wow, looks cool!"
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Sometimes I feel like half the reason I like tech is because it makes people do and say silly things.
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I could deal with Git far better until I listened to @mcclure111 talking about it. So to read this article now ... blog.begriffs.com/2012/08/version-control-for-poetic-time.html
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@VitaminPowered have you got any tips for using Git with large binary files, large blobs of machine-generated YAML & nontechnical coworkers?
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@eddiecameron @mcclure111 I don't know, do you often want to "tell a story that is somehow outside of time and space" with your code?
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@mcclure111 I like the progress of the piece from Aristotle to asides about how doing the obvious thing will break it in confusing ways.
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@mcclure111 my understanding is that a benefit of doing this is for the functionality of git bisect (which breaks if you've broken commits)
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@mcclure111 I ... work in Unity, so frankly none of this stuff works well for me.
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@Gillespionage would rather stay here -- still working, & got a bunch of emails to send still. Still on?
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@mcclure111 It also works poorly with Perforce, because it ignores read-only flags!
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@mcclure111 though they have just added hooks for other VCSs within Unity, and have added Perforce and (soon) SVN support.
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@failnaut what's wrong with being childish? I made up stupid company names as a kid, why can't I continue to do so nowadays?
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@failnaut but, like... that's a point of being an indie dev. Making stupid bullshit nevertheless a viable career.
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Making a living out of ideas that made you laugh when you were drunk one time.
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Maddie just made the absolute most pathetic noise when I picked her up off the bed for the 6th time in a row.
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Going to Toronto next week!~ Going to be just like Scott Pilgrim!~
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@richlitt @robertpeacock22 Yeah! And yeah -- though the initial impetus was to help run this : ago.net/fancy-videogame-party
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@robertpeacock22 @richlitt The first time I met @Carachan1 I irritated her by naming anyone we could've known in common.
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@richlitt @robertpeacock22 You know I'm going to NY the week after, right?
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@SFBTom oh, that's no good
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wondering how much of the next month I want to spend on trains...
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Sad our videogame isn't going to be as good as KRZ. That's not the right attitude to have, of course. But
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@lampholder are you in a petrol station? y/n
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Guys, this is ridiculous, but if you want to come to That Party at GDC you should get a ticket sharpish.
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@mcclure111 my housemate founded this : computeranonymous.org/ and it seemed to strike a chord. So I'd say yes.
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@brandonnn those guys... I wish I were those guys.
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I think I might be sketching out a game that's like @TerrorBullGames made Netrunner.
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@VitaminPowered my experience with the github client was that the that workflow breaks things in ways too interesting to easily fix.
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@pintendo64 yeah, they're like... wafer biscuits covered in chocolate...
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@psychicteeth it's okay if they're genuinely moved by the praise?
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RT @davelee1968: Four years of 'austerity' all over the country but one month of rain in the south and its 'money no object' for sorting th…
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@psychicteeth me, often?
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@thomasfigg who is this?
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@lingmops @Pisscress I did that at my old work. Because there were literally no other facilities. Besides leaving for a coffeeshop.
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@thomasfigg :< That was actually my first guess.
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@thomasfigg Still, Wild Rumpus launched to bring indie LMP games to people who don't play games, and we've completely failed at that, so.
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@rclarke what cost of applying? They waived that for ... uh, I can't remember the details.
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@philippawarr to be fair, it is a lot of hassle making new friends
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@severalbees I like that you are reassuring people it is for a game, and not for a different game.
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Rain's lashing down, Meursault's on, I feel good! Except when I have to pause it to test this code for footsteps.
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@leighalexander @seniath remind me to tell you about @severalbees defeating me on her 2nd ever game with an advanced Hadrian's...
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Really enjoying that Shia LaBeouf is doing a performance art thing plagiarizing Marina Abramovic.
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@asponge look. global warming, right. it's bollocks! Look at the alps! Covered in snow.
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@BRKeogh they're similarly sized to the sprite, which isn't traditional. Compare Maverick Bird
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@BRKeogh yep! This is especially evident in shmups, where usually the hitbox is _tiny_ (and a important skill is knowing it's size & pos)
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RT @brandonnn: there are under 100 tickets left for thatpartyagain.eventbrite.com so it really is becoming pretty important that you get one now …
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@cczona So, several things: A meetup without any clear leadership, a games space (though have good resources for that) & a club night.
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@BRKeogh @OzymandiasAV joking aside, Maverick Bird does have a moment's pause, for feedback's sake. And it's good!
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@BRKeogh @OzymandiasAV you trace it up and go right?
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@BRKeogh @OzymandiasAV an interesting thing is how neglecting a lot of these customs makes Flappy Bird feel "honest"
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@BRKeogh that was something I loved about Candy Box, too - but there it was fake, it wasn't native web aesthetics.
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@beckwig one of us! One of us! One of us!
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Guess I'm going to AMAZE!
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Guess I don't have any breakfast in the house for tomorrow!
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Oh man, we sold out already? This is weird.
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@compositeredfox we only put tickets on sale 2 days ago!
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@compositeredfox I'm not complaining, just ... this is for once a bit of success I am not just takin I my stride as my right.
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@compositeredfox (though I did just silently, smoothly agree with it being the best party. Heh)
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@brandonnn ah, are they still rattling around? Let 'em be, they'll expire after 15 minutes and someone else will snaffle them.
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@patrickashe It Could Be You!
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@KommanderKlobb @rclarke I could! It makes me feel stupid.
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@TerrorBullGames Never!
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@TerrorBullGames (but if it does become a thing, I would love to playtest it with you)
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@rclarke @patrickashe I think the inevitability of death elevates it above Stickets... but maybe not.
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@st33d @KommanderKlobb @rclarke @patrickashe you mean the value, or the positioning? I like the element of risk.
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@edclef @KommanderKlobb @rclarke @patrickashe I've seen, like, 3 in total. *shrug* Main problem with them is that they're spoilers.
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@st33d @KommanderKlobb @rclarke @patrickashe the algorithm for that makes sense to me -- picks randomly from the set of moving columns. No?
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@st33d @KommanderKlobb @rclarke @patrickashe tbh, I admire the craft of Threes, but it's a bit of mental hopscotch I'd rather not be doing.
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For real though, Steam's genre listings are also terrible.
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RT @Doomlaser: wtf is wrong with me. #flappyjam i.imgur.com/ZL8hXYX.gif
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@john_brindle They're a internet company that operates on a large scale providing things to consumers. This is How It's Done.
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@john_brindle Amazon has this model. Google has this model. Ebay has this model. It would be surprising if they operated different.
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@john_brindle I am not trying to make a normative judgement here -- it leads to a lot of fucked things. I agree with this tweet, frinstance.
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@mcclure111 @john_brindle One where the scale of operations, as far as possible, is unconnected to the number of staff running it.
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@jonbro well, it's all glommed into our game, and I don't know which bits are generic.
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@jonbro also, it'll probably naturally wait til our games come out, which'll be ages and ages away. Maybe sooner. I can send you bits now?
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@jonbro come on gchat or skype?
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@leighalexander @seniath @felix_cohen @asponge @McKelvie Mine went up £75 today! Oh happy days of East London.
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@rich_lem ah, that's a word I've not heard in a while...
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@rich_lem @Carachan1 I'm the proud owner of a Cognitive Science MA, in which context it came up a few times. & yes, unsurprisingly me too!
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@CharlesYarnold @LHSBikeshed venue is always the hardest part.
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@asponge alice alice look at this numen.eu/installations/string/prototype/
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@CharlesYarnold aye, I can Imagine. Do you have quotes for venues yet? We've had very different deals with each venue...
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@psychicteeth and dream of a fourth...
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@KommanderKlobb I turned off Google Now because I work at home. All it ever did was occasionally tell me about nearby bus stops.
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@leighalexander You know I'm going to be there before you are? (ie 2 weeks from now). Though, I don't know if Doug lives in Bushwick...
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Animal Crossing music for whatever time it is where you are tane.us/ac/nl.html
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@leighalexander gonna.. do some work and hang out with people, and I guess be a tourist (going because I have never been to New York before)
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@patrickashe Had a moment of realization at uni when I pulled an all-nighter, then realized I didn't have to. Was just doing it for fun.
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@patrickashe It's fun! It's exciting! It's not something that should become a habit.
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@Carachan1 @zusty What's your magic M&M colour?
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RT @ra: how to use twitter 1. tell a robot a joke 2. wait 3. the robot will tell you if some people laughed or not 4. you are alone in your…
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@patrickashe @doougle @nachimir @ElectronDance all comes down to working in a way that's sustainable, really.
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@droqen That is not true.
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@Carachan1 what game would you buy above all others?
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@tigershungry at least it has soothing menu music
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@tigershungry oh, fuck a duck. And fuck programs that don't properly relinquish socket connections on quit.
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Shout out to the calming elevator music of the JS Joust Pairing Utility.
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@tigershungry @KommanderKlobb crimping ain't easy
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RT @mcclure111: If you're going to give out T-shirts to your employees, don't make them all "Unisex Shirts" that are actually "Guy's Shirts…
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RT @mcclure111: Hey so TECH COMPANIES, if you want to know what would help with GENDER INCLUSION, a good thing would be
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@tigershungry @KommanderKlobb feel free to call me if they're more hardwarey
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openFrameworks has a "ofWrapDegrees" function. I wish Unity did.
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@BRKeogh @john_brindle Was really great! Safe flights home!
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@fridgehead I'm okay at it now, but ... it's not a skill that I should to have had to have gotten good at.
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@fridgehead and sometimes you need -180 to 180, sometimes 0 to 360 ... :D
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@tef mod(-30) != 330
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@tef C# preserves negatives. Also sometimes you need it within the range (-180 to 180). Or sometimes even stupider ranges (this has come up)
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@tef wait, how? (C# % is actually "remainder")
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@tef you see why I wish Unity had a function that let me never think about this again?
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@seniath I just showered so - round yours in 15?
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RT @MarikaRose: Please state your reasons for applying for this job: Under capitalism I am compelled to sell my labour in order to subsist.
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In fact... #weirdkids v21.tumblr.com/post/76752995625
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UV mapping yaay
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@severalbees @seniath @tef @asponge could do that! Let's, in fact, it'll get me out of bed at a useful time.
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Remembered about "useradd" and "adduser"
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@Carachan1 context (I can't remember either)
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@jennatar this is amazing. Now following.
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Posting this link to troll @patrickashe and @hannahnicklin (and anyone else who thinks Punchdrunk or KS is balls) killscreendaily.com/articles/articles/future-videogames-may-be-occurring-old-mail-office-london/
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@LizRugg @pintendo64 ah, that hat is great! (I want it) And I have Genji! He's pretty fun. He hates nerds and lifts a lot.
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RT @TylerGlaiel: unity, at the beginning of a project: "LOOK AT ALL THE GAME IM MAKING! ITS ONLY BEEN 2 HOURS!"
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RT @TylerGlaiel: unity, a year later: "this fuckin particle is half a unit off from where it should be and theres no fuckin way to fix it f…
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RT @ranarama: Definitely guilty of @joshleejosh's observation that many of us now seeing making games as a side job not a hobby. #indiecade
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Sad I'm not in New York already :<
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@Carachan1 For-real that's an option at a little place called *Lost Levels*~
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@Carachan1 That is what I've heard. But no details as yet...
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@Carachan1 Well.. "#lostlevels MARCH 20, 2014, in SAN FRANCISCO PLEASE WAIT RECALIBRATING OK AWAIT FURTHER BULLETINS AND INQUIRIES"
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@Carachan1 I will take that as a yes.
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@phannDOTde Needs Pro, I'm afraid (like all post-process effects).
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Recommendations for music that only works played loud (no-one else is in)? Not in the mood for guitars, though.
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RT @patrickashe: Animal Crossing is just Gentrification: The Game. You move in, do up the town, run a hip coffee shop and move on leaving t…
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RT @patrickashe: Any animals that don't like you or what your doing to their home just have to out to a different town while people like yo…
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@patrickashe and the whole time saying "oh, it's so cute, I love the traditional rural life, it's the connections you make that matter"
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@KommanderKlobb The response to this comment is amazing! youtube.com/watch?v=AZTZRtRFkvk&google_comment_id=z13fv1w5wtfes3jdy23zghvgpofijjqdw
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@failnaut go on, then, let's have some hip hop.
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@failnaut just saying this to give the anguish of choosing, but : no - one song.
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@failnaut man, why did I skip Public Enemy when I was listening to classic hip hop as a teenager? Thanks!
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@edclef @chrisoshea We're doing 2D sprites in a 3D world. Using multiple ortho cameras, and just moving each different amounts.
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@edclef @chrisoshea (each parallax layer has a Layer assigned & camera only renders that) Mind, that doesn't make moving between layers easy
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@LawrieARussell @edclef @chrisoshea Doesn't look like much when not moving. Did it this way because bg doesn't move, so can statically batch
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@LawrieARussell @edclef @chrisoshea (Obv if our scenes were procedurally laid out, this doesn't make sense, might as well just move layers)
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@hannahnicklin @patrickashe a hahahahaha job done!
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@HilariousCow @edclef if 50% of games with a default defaulted to female, then I would agree.
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@hannahnicklin typo : " a chorus, and 4 versus"
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@hannahnicklin - and... I really like this. I really like the bit about stopping people you'd be afraid of. All sounds like really hard work
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John Campbell has been writing a lot of really strong stuff recently. boohooboo.tumblr.com/post/76976675735
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@martinhollis @lexicobob ah, I preferred the original post (without the images). Best part for me was having been taught Haskell by Wadler.
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@kahodesu @tigershungry yes yes yes!
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@hannahnicklin @Carachan1 ah, amazing. I do see the resemblance, yeah!
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@doougle Tennin, tho.
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@doougle ps obviously I'm bringing my decks
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@patrickashe no recommendation, just sympathy.
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what a polite email gyazo.com/866aa77a40c4623b84de3c3a73549e2f
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@HilariousCow @nickludlam I am far more impressed by efficiency of labour these days.This stuff can be fun, but it's not nearly as important
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"its unfortunate what happened and upon reflection very regrettable"
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@nickludlam @HilariousCow But even there -- my most common reaction to AAA dev is to think about the man-lifetimes involved in it's creation
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@nickludlam @HilariousCow Like you do when you enter a cathedral and you imagine building it without machinery. Except it's tits and guns.
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@nickludlam @HilariousCow @proceduralguy Right! But it's exciting because it's cool interesting stuff and Just One Guy, not cuz of filesize.
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RT @mcc_ebooks: @whatisian She's as pale as I am working from the preexisting scripts— they were written with awareness of the schema.
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@edclef @LewieP @doougle @leighalexander though to be fair, you should probably use a controller, rather than just play kb like I did.
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@psychicteeth karaoke is the best. Last time I did Help The Aged and no-one but me enjoyed it, but I enjoyed it a bunch.
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The thing is, if you'd love EDF, that review makes it clear you'd love it. So basically the problem is that scores are bullshit?
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@psychicteeth it's such a good song. I wonder how loudly I can play it without being super obnoxious...
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@DominicTarason @lefishy yeah, but that stuff doesn't stop/make you love it, though, does it?
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@lefishy @DominicTarason is this common wisdom? I absorb all my game knowledge by osmosis, so I don't know how other people do this.
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@retroremakes I tweet that having not played EDF, and subsequent to Cara's review quite wanting to.
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@retroremakes I mean, I enjoyed that 7DFPS game about shooting watermelons with miniguns loads...
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@BRKeogh @retroremakes Nope! But I've got a LOT of Tenya Wanya Teens/ ALPHABET skins for one...
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@BRKeogh @retroremakes you totally should've. I'll bring them to GDC?
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@retroremakes But like, I love Bangai-O Spirits, and it taught me that framerate issues are a great way to communicate to the player...
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@retroremakes ... that there really is rather a lot of shit on screen for you to deal with right now.
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@retroremakes I always liked broken games the best anyway.
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Have failed to get business cards printed. Maybe I'll just take a bunch of blank playing cards and write my name on them instead?
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I guess this plan requires me to have a working pen on me at all times...
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@psychicteeth feel that. I mean, not *that*. But, yeah.
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@xShrewsbury you can't do that, that's my name
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@haze______ to be fair, that's the point of business cards. You give them a bit of paper & obligation is fulfilled.
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@haze______ If you wanna actually do something with a person, you should make specific plans instead.
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@haze______ (I am fine with this -- lots of times I just want to give someone a bit of paper & not talk to them again)
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@haze______ the fun part is when you clear out your desk/cupboard/floor & find business cards of people you now know well...
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@haze______ that would require a printer...
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@haze______ oh, no, they're blank on one side (can you get tasteless one sided playing cards?)
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Enjoying a tweet from @tha_rami topping a list of effusive praise from actual games journalists who've written actual articles.
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@haze______ everyone's a critic
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@bfod no, no, it's selling to people who think of experiencing the world as being like jogging
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@bfod something you think would be healthy to do more often, but you'd appreciate any crutch that makes it more bearable.
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@bfod @Barchmen me too!
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@KommanderKlobb yeah, but: @v21/435950832547151872
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@KommanderKlobb @pippinbarr @tigershungry all I know of TD is this: truedetectiveconversations.tumblr.com/
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@tha_rami In a Wild Rumpus submission email. I mean, I might've done the same thing?
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So : MacBook Pros -- how capable are the graphics cards? (It turns out my life involves running a bunch of really badly optimised games.)
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@alexhern Cheers -- deciding between spending a lot of money on a 13", or quite excessive amounts on a 15" with a dedicated card in.
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@wrossmck @psychicteeth I don't need ridiculous performance: just something that's as good at this 4 yo (laptop) dedicated card, really.
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@wrossmck @psychicteeth Mobility Radeon HD 3650 (thanks!)
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@wrossmck @psychicteeth that'll do me! Thanks.
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Hastily organized pub tonight? (as I'm going away for a month tomorrow) Thinking The Florist down my road.
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@severalbees @terrycavanagh @increpare @HilariousCow @rclarke @Gillespionage @vorrintal @betterthemask @D_Nye_Griffiths pub tonight?
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@Gillespionage @severalbees @terrycavanagh @increpare @HilariousCow @rclarke @vorrintal @betterthemask @D_Nye_Griffiths Florist Arms
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@st33d of course!
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@seniath no worries! this is clearly a last-minute plan...
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I wonder what day I will finally stop fixing minor bugs in this hand-rolled parser. Last day of the project? Last week?
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@psychicteeth ... damnit, you're right as well.
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@aanand never go back! never surrender!
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"There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person" says Warren Spector,creator of Thief and Deus Ex
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@sam_cook It's an actual press quote! uk.ign.com/articles/2001/11/12/deus-ex-2
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Thinking about the talk I'm going to do at #lostlevels about why Netrunner is terrible.
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@AdamPye No, it's fantastic. I play a couple of times a week, have been playing for months and it's still exciting & new.
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@AdamPye Has anyone played it before? If so, get them to teach you. Manual is rubbish for learning from. Or else : google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCgQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVAslVfZ9p-Y&ei=YMkEU5vmF-iv7Aa7sYHgCA&usg=AFQjCNGzQSd9gvgaXNc3LMggg-jg4hhsBg&sig2=Aj7das_lLgFCu7qRlqdggg&bvm=bv.61535280,d.ZGU
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@robertpeacock22 Maybe! Hopefully? I suck at writing up talks, though. But I might practice on you this week.
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@smestorp Oh man, you should! Spoiler : the end of the talk has me comparing to to Minecraft & Rust.
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@severalbees once I pack? If you give me a specific time, I can make it that instead.
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@severalbees haha -- by a whisker they're not in the same place.
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@severalbees Also : yes.
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@HilariousCow ah, but freelancers are allowed to walk away! And they get paid rates commersurate to the risks they're assuming!
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@severalbees @patrickashe how can we, when there's a crucial segment on "nudging" missing.
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@radiatoryang I don't think I mentioned to you that I'm in New York before GDC? Anyway - I am! Let's do a hang?
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@hannahnicklin I deal with this the same way @severalbees deals with house prices -- I try very hard not to think about it
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@leighalexander no worries, it was entirely last minute anyhow. Back end of March (post GDC). So I guess I'll see you at GDC!
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@leighalexander to be honest, "pre-emptively exhausted" sums it up for me right now.
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@leighalexander why do we have to have a week of hard work and a week of hanging out with friends you never see at the same time?
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I am sorry. I have killed Dark Souls Nites. Please send replacement controller to @asponge.
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@terrycavanagh Yep! Gonna shower & head to the Florist Arms for 6:30
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@xShrewsbury thanks!
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@terrycavanagh feel free to come by later -- can let you know when I'm heading off
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@brandonnn @SamAlden This is going to make me sad, isn't it? gyazo.com/4ca8ba6270cac27ebf85eed807d8d9e6 Yes, yes it is.
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@joonturbo why, what's up? (You'd definitely be able to find someone to take the slot)
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Thanks everyone who came out for my impromptu farewell drinks. Now going home to finish packing.
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@AlanZucconi I didn't want to make a performance out of it -- I'll be back next month.
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The number of people I've tried to say goodbye to, only to realize I'd see them in the US...
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@tigershungry I friggin' hope so. Bit embarrassing to have farewell drinks and still be hanging around like a bad smell.
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@paullicino hello! yes. next one is on the 3rd.
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@phototropy I've never even been to New York before!
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@guybuckenham Thanks! Sure I will do! :D
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@LewieP What if I told you Ginger Pig had shut down?
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@LewieP you scotch-egg fanciers, with your tendencies to assume that a single person is entirely creatively responsible for a scotch egg.
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I'm worried my suitcase is too large
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Guy in a purple fedora, reading "Britannia Unchained"
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@BRKeogh I read it as "[console] exclusive"
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@BRKeogh ...which admittedly is also not true, but
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Putting the first 15 episodes of Cowboy Bebop on my iPad for this flight was a good call
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@nickludlam 8 hours. Which, thinking about it, is pretty much perfect.
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RT @ChineseRoom: Our fear of being seen as another Crash Bandicoot clone almost saw us forget Dear Esther altogether. It was originally muc…
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@garethbriggs break a leg! Really gutted to be missing it, looks amazing.
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@MrTastyFace I don't even think you'd need that... You saw the thing they had at live shows that did it in real time?
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Shoutout to everyone at Bees in a Tin today! Wish I could be there...
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@HilariousCow @psychicteeth can you send me access, too? (For the same thing)
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@psychicteeth look "pink" and "invisible" are the two favorite colours of shaders. You've got to pick one...
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@Carachan1 should I be emailing people about GDC things?
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@Carachan1 I don't think I'm ready either. Though I am now on my way, I guess....
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@jennatar @Carachan1 ahhhhh, really? Fingers crossed we will eat sausage together.
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@Carachan1 first step : acquire jerrycan of kerosene.
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Started a tumblr to put pictures of my trip up on v21travels.tumblr.com/post/77379209471/i-arrived-in-toronto-yesterday-and-as-i-usually
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@KommanderKlobb @miguelsicart @manofmanyfrowns but as soon as you try to use it outside the context they want, you're fucked.
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@miguelsicart @KommanderKlobb @manofmanyfrowns typing on an iPad, on the closed Twitter platform right now...
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@miguelsicart @KommanderKlobb @manofmanyfrowns also, this stuff is explicitly less useful & exciting locked to Google tech.
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@miguelsicart @KommanderKlobb @manofmanyfrowns and fuck doing work for them, that they then have control (& often ownership) of
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@miguelsicart @KommanderKlobb @manofmanyfrowns every time I have to do a recaptcha I hate them.I'm improving their maps for free w no choice
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@KommanderKlobb @miguelsicart @manofmanyfrowns yep. Open Street Map. Often better quality maps. UI is rubbish, though (or else I'd use it)
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@KommanderKlobb @miguelsicart @manofmanyfrowns (though, actually, there's not the same db of business listings...)
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@KommanderKlobb yeah - it's better map data, but worse business directory. Though - I hardly ever use g maps in London now (cuz Citymapper)
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The view from where I'm staying (that's a cement factory) tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo184Gy6I
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hey @tigershungry, here is a list of songs that might become relevant later... open.spotify.com/user/asponge/playlist/3odSWXUWBxQBppJx7dsPpr
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Dancing happened! That means the event was a success
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@bfod @metasynthie oh, really? Well, \o/brought my decks with me...
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Test tweet
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Well, I guess I've beaten jetlag at least.
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UK people! If you go down to GEEK in Margate today, you just might get a chance to play Punch the Custard...
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Autocorrect made that "pinch the custard", which is a different, but perhaps worth exploring, game
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@ADAMATOMIC I have a F-91W. If it's the kind of thing you want, it's perfect.
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@dinosaurrparty London?
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RT @raiganburns: Amazing overview of match-3s by @st33d : tmblr.co/ZlDryx18D6BvY (I guess Lumines is technically a match 4, alas) via @some…
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Toronto people : don't suppose you want to let me crash somewhere this week?
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@doougle "so energizing" says the man who was too asleep to come to brunch this morning.
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@KnealeK @GEEK_2014 So happy to have shared it, and so sorry it was such a pain to run. Thanks @TinkerSoc for making it work!
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RT @bgedelman: I found previously-secret Google docs: To preinstall YouTube, a manuf'r must set Google Search as default. And more. http://…
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reocities.com/SouthBeach/Port/3823/ Prince Harry fan page
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@mrch4d yep! Gonna head over in a sec.
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A conversation last night about what words different places used for roads. London has all of them.
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Road, avenue, street, boulevard, cut, way, alley, place, court, crescent, circle, lane... I'm sure I'm missing some obvious ones.
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@patrickashe I had place!
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@elibrody does that happen as "[place] cul de sac" (was wondering this doing the initial list)
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RT @TomNullpointer: @v21 I really like the local variants of more minor things, snicket, ginnel etc
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We don't have freeways, though.
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RT @amazingrolo: @v21 my favorite Scottish ones: Glebe, Gate, Neuk
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@xShrewsbury @pkqk got those!
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@garethbriggs yep! Aldgate, at least.
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@garethbriggs I had to check it was an actual street myself...
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RT @seniath: @v21 rake? (my childhood home was on a rake google.co.uk/maps/place/Guffitt's+Rake/@53.4042335,-3.1551014,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x487b28e2c215bf29:0x1ed98063260db041)
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It turns out the @tassosstevens quote I keep using has an accompanying blog post allplayall.net/?p=201
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@tassosstevens and at some point, I'll probably do a ranty talk that can be summed up as "this applies to games too"
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Photoset: Dim Sum with Marie, then off to watch her do a panel on curation. But all of my pictures of that... tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo18Nib_5
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And @tef had to ruin all the fun " @v21 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_or_road_name#Street_type_designations"
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@robertpeacock22 just now booked a hostel room! Cheaper than I thought, so it's all good (£100 for 5 nights, with breakfast?!)
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@robertpeacock22 thanks for the offer, though! You around for drinking some day this week (as well as Torontaru)?
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@robertpeacock22 oh, hey, yeah, totally!
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@doam yeah! Let's do a hang? Gonna do a playtest night for WR submissions one night this week.
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Recommending this paper : "The Mundanity of Excellence" lillyfellows.org/Portals/0/Chambliss-Mundanity%20of%20Excellence.pdf
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Sitting in Bento Miso, and I can see Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime open in Unity over someone's shoulder.
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@leighalexander great hair in your new profile pic.
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@tef you present this as a bad thing, but the side effect is that a generation of devs learn a tool that actually solves their problems.
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@tef (I make the assumption that "a system that does everything" actually solves your problems, which isn't true. BUT)
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@tef So, in my own experience : Unity is more complex & more capable than when I started with it. But I've kept up, so I'm okay.
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@tef Comes a time when it becomes so burdened with it's own cruft it's not good for beginners, I'll still have it. (til it dies, of course)
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@tef And all for the low low price of regularly spending hours learning about how it's changed and why my code is suddenly broken.
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@alexhayter One of them does!
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@tef The best tool is the one you already know how to use.
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@alexhayter @jamie_tucker Hi Jamie, I've been talking about you behind your back. Not literally behind your back, you're facing this way.
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"Now it's time for you, the gamer, to weigh in"
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@tha_rami wait, what's the difference between "real" and "recreational" badminton?
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@john_brindle But still the F-35 lives on! What will it take to kill it?
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Feeling pride that @WildRumpus has more followers than me.
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@Dick_Hogg it's coming for you next!
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So yesterday I found out someone taught their class about Punch the Custard. Nuts!
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@TRUTRUTRULUV Was an example of non-digital games, a prompt for discussing what "platform" means for a game, I think.
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@ADAMATOMIC part of the answer is there: it does make a big difference. As a core shaper, you want to get a full rig out -- lots of
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@ADAMATOMIC ...icebreakers, Toolbox, Magnum Opus for economy. Basically, keep your offenses sharper than the corp's defenses.
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@smestorp @ADAMATOMIC Really? I usually don't find this. But it's possible I don't play very strategically, but just go with my temptations.
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@mwegner @ADAMATOMIC Runners should run. What's the worst that could happen?
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LOST LEVELS is happening again! lostlevels.net/#sessions (also give them money for the permit)
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I want to give lost levels money, but indiegogo won't load
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@patrickashe ah, rubbish : I redeemed it, but I also have Antichamber already.
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Who wants a copy of Antichamber? humblebundle.com/downloads?key=GFZhwC4UZ5bAydRD
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@brandonnn @jonbro @ADAMATOMIC @smestorp well, I just submitted a talk on the subject for Lost Levels, so...
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Hey, my lost levels talk went up! lostlevels.net/#sessions
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@Carachan1 Oh yes! I totally ignored you because I was doing party setup then. I am up for it! It sounds great! Let's do it!
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@Carachan1 BUT I have a condition/constraint : total setup time has to be < 30 mins.
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@edclef @vectorpoem Haven't played Arabian Nights, but seems like it's on similar ground as the Yawhg?
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@Carachan1 I was thinking some physical puzzles done with paper on the floor. But now, thinking : a bag full of pebbles & some fabric...
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@Carachan1 Someone holding a crystal, with rules for how to respond when they're poked in various places (some combination makes them drop).
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@Carachan1 Something to do with a particular tree, indicated via an abstract map.
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@Carachan1 Poster tube & super-cheap grabby claw thing?
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@Carachan1 bobbing for apples in a bucket.
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@Carachan1 or ... and this would require a tarp is put down... hide the crystal in one of 7 tubs of yogurt
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@dmnddst just checking my eyes : does that affect one side before the other? either way, rad rad stuff!
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@dmnddst really need to up my game and start putting weird stuff in vert(), not just frag()
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Photo: Spending the night answering email* in the hostel bar [*okay, Twitter] tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo18QqlwU
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Just saw a sign on a bar : Full Kitchen Open Til 4 am. Fuck London. tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo18QqmDR
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Reminder : this is what Mambo No 5 sounds like when it's performed on bike horns aberrantkenosis.tumblr.com/post/36651382979/in-case-you-ever-wanted-to-know-what-mambo-number
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@xShrewsbury London has a lot of good things, but what it doesn't have is bars with kitchens open til 4AM.
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Fun insane programming details link, for people who like that sort of thing : oilq.org/fr/node/13344
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@robertpeacock22 it was definitely on King, so I assume so. Let's do it.
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Just saw on my TL someone get talked into doing a talk at Lost Levels having (I assume) not done many talks before.
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Photo: I am a professional person, which is why I’m waiting for a Skype call at 08:55am in a hostel lobby... tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo18TUwAx
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@Poxican the film, the book and the game are this incredible trilogy of great work that do very different things but still relate.
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@Dick_Hogg @Poxican haha, guess we need to fight now
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@Dick_Hogg @Poxican they all have gruff taciturn men, bleak wildernesses, awe/uneasy cooperation with forces beyond us...
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@Dick_Hogg @Poxican it's mainly just a good opportunity to make people read/watch/play a good thing.
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@doougle @miguelsicart ends, maybe, but there's some amazing parts in the middle that made my stomach lurch like I was in freefall.
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@miguelsicart @doougle Also, I can forgive it ending ridiculously because things kept happening. Often in TV shows, things stop happening.
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pleased that Canada is now properly cold, like I was warned about
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@robertpeacock22 but like, a few days ago it was raining. I didn't need to travel abroad to get rained on.
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@robertpeacock22 oooh! that sounds fun!
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@robertpeacock22 (I should probably buy some gloves before that happens, huh?)
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@fridgehead right, but what counts as "surrounding", huh?
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I really like the construction "from games", as in "are they from games", or "people who aren't from games"
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@KommanderKlobb that's a neat demo! I'd only heard about it via @tef's snark.
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@tef @KommanderKlobb I also like the bit where he reimplemented RDF, but this time as a proprietary format.
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@tef @KommanderKlobb And said it was uniquely suited to the cloud and the internet of things, but gave no options for deploying it yourself.
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@tef @KommanderKlobb but on the plus side, this looks like it'd be less painful than Matlab for learning image processing in, so 👍
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@tef @KommanderKlobb still never got round to working out how to get a nice interactive shell for python going in windows.
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@KommanderKlobb @tef Maybe there will be, but that video does not make me want to assume the best.
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I want a radio station that's just endless voices patiently explaining various features & internals of git.
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@KommanderKlobb nah, @xShrewsbury's got the right idea -- fade between explaining git reflog & open.spotify.com/user/themillard/playlist/5XBGExQ8DKPgX4ncuQhbB8
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RT @tef: if you're wondering what the error messages in the wolfram language will look like, look no further blog.wolfram.com/2009/09/03/a-new-slant-in-mathematica/
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@sam_cook yeah, but there's a bunch of wrappers & UIs wrapping it & extending it
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@sam_cook basically the problem is using "useful thing that normally exists on a command line" & "windows" at the same time.
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Listening to @bfod say "we're driven to make games, we can't not make games" while staring at gyazo.com/a82339f94169696bc8ccbe8e96d6845c ...
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@fastramdesign it's okay, it's an animation system, it just lets you adjust animation speed from another component.
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@fastramdesign (so, it makes the characters walking animation play at the same speed they're moving)
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@phototropy seems reasonable
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@KommanderKlobb @patrickashe It's in the spreadsheet
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@KommanderKlobb @patrickashe (they're at mine and Alices)
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@mrch4d @tigershungry yep!
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@mrch4d @tigershungry also, testing rumpus games this evening at Bento Miso if you're at a loose end.
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Now really sad I snoozed on downloading Blood & Laurels... gone now.
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@xMattieBrice yay! I was netrunnering tonight. You went with good old tag&bag NBN?
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@garblefart because rendering is expensive even at the target resolution?
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@garblefart heh - well, there's an answer - either they do fancy rendering shit & can't afford it, or don't & so don't.
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Photo: George’s North American Netrunner Tour continues… tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo18ZactW
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@jonbro crushing him (jk, I lost this game)
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@jonbro that game was basically "George waits to use Scorched Earth, never does"
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@jonbro At one point I had a Posted Bounty down, advanced twice, a Scorched Earth & he had 2 cards in his hand- then he drew up, innocently.
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@jonbro probably should've - but he won a turn or two later anyway, pulling an agenda out my hand. Should've scored PB & hidden that agenda.
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@jonbro Anyway, the important thing is --- I think I'm going to build a Wayland deck.
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The name @thelocalmeta is a great name for a Netrunner meet.
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RT @jonbro: indieroyale.com/ get two of our games (and 4 other games) for the price of half of a game.
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I usually enjoy games of netrunner more when I lose
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@v21 I think it's because when you lose you get to think about what you should've done differently, which'd seem like being a bad winner.
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Recommended LMP game : sync by @JonRemedios . available here jonremedios.itch.io/sync for a minimum price of free.
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Realizing that switching to OSX when I get my new computer means I'll have to leave VS & Resharper behind & feeling lost.
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@robertpeacock22 this laptop still works, it's just old and, (more importantly) unreliable. So : probably eventually?
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@adragonbee I guess at least I'll have XCode? Oh god, what am I doing
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@cubed2d this is probably what I'm going to do, tbh. Though I still need to for out for UnityVS. Can set it as the editor in Unity that way?
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@cubed2d Looks like @quickfingerz has the solution : quickfingers.net/visual-studio-unity-mac-the-finale/
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The entirety of my notes from our @WildRumpus Skype call
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@robertasaliani it already being old as balls? either because it's "classic", or because it's already lost all it's value.
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How many bands on Spotify earn enough to afford a Spotify subscription?
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@getdizzzy i did rough calculations trying to work this out! nottheinternet.com/blog/depressing-thoughts-about-the-app-store/
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@iandioch @getdizzzy there's a fair amount of supposition and slipped-in assumption in that, tbf.
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@iandioch @getdizzzy And I don't have that accurate a feel for the Android market -- do it yourself, though!
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@iandioch @getdizzzy well, that sounds like a perfect time to do that!
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fuck this fuck this fuck this
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the Inspector (default!) for this Unity component takes like a second to respond to any input, and I don't know how to fix it.
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and the data I need to enter has a lot of underscores in it, and the text entry stuff is putting in -es because it's so laggy
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but we'll need to add a lot more stuff later, so this is going to become even more unacceptable over time
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and it's so sufficiently unresponsive I can't even use the profiler to look at why
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I tailed off on that rant a while ago, but let's just pop back in to say : fuck Unity.
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@Carachan1 what if they tied you down and poured ants on you til you relented?
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All of my Canadian money has turned into a blizzard of receipts and blown away. Especially that pointless... tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo18epheJ
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@jonty oh, damn, I always wanted to try that, but am out of the country
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Remember that rant I did yesterday? The one that ended with "fuck Unity"? well, today is a brand new day, and fuck Unity.
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(I think it has decided to reimport all of the assets in the project. This will take several hours, during which time I cannot work)
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@Gillespionage I'm in a hostel bar.
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@Gillespionage ... so it's a perfect time to masturbate or read comics!
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@Carachan1 @deirdrakiai I played it the other week -- so lovely.
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The Yawhg is now on Steam -- store.steampowered.com/app/269030 it's really lush, really interesting & just generally good ok buy it
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@robertpeacock22 @loudawgs make it quarter-past?
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Photo: I’m a giant nerd tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo18gOu2l
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Photo: Poutine before Torontaru! And Ceasars, which are made with clam juice and still aren’t better than... tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo18gPBxa
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Video: Also I took a vine of me being surprised by Francoise Gamma last night. tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo18gPa_n
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Today is the day that Marty McFly goes to the future! martymcflyinthefuture.tumblr.com/post/77992479884/today-is-the-day-that-marty-mcfly-goes-to-the (via @joonturbo)
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@jennatar @joonturbo screengrabs don't lie, Jenn
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@raiganburns @renaudbedard haha, hi! I always feel awkward going "you might know me on the Internet", because sometimes people don't
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It is 4:05PM, and I have not yet succeeded at opening Unity. [it's fault, not mine]
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@doougle doh!
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@whatisian @doougle you understand my meaning precisely
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@awesommelier definitely! I'm back the end of March, you'll be in London by then, right?
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@mcclure111 wait, from whose perspective? a single observer? consensus of the couple?
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RT @Pentadact: Oh man, very cool: game where you have to fix bugs in the code to progress: puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=9174930 Surprisingly doable! Via…
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@radiatoryang sometimes I'm tempted. But I always resist.
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@radiatoryang test it sometime
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I really want to do a talk at @NYUGameCenter, if only to get one of their beautiful posters made with my name on it.
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@patrickashe @NYUGameCenter poor cara...
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@patrickashe @NYUGameCenter I don't think it counts if you have to write your name on yourself with a pen
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@PistachioRoux @jonbro @oldweirdalbion @jspace @patrickashe ah, cool, should hopefully be back by then (get back on like the 25th?)
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Photo: Spending my evening consulting on arcade cab repairs tmblr.co/ZZ5MKo18iuF7c
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Expensive shoes that make me make a face knowing I can't afford them tmblr.co/ZPjmzx18itdR_
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this place has a "fire toilet"
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i told them the London Hackspace has a "do not be on fire" rule, and they went looking for ethanol to set themselves on fire with
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@severalbees flip yes!
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@severalbees @patrickashe just buy a burner number when you're over there. T-mobile US do ones for about $3 per day - just go into a store.
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@severalbees @patrickashe or, free roaming if you're already on Three.
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@tef ... it's a valid perspective tho *tabs away to Visual Studio to write C#*
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@garblefart ... wait, but other animals cheat & lie
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@garblefart p sure other animals punish cheating when they catch it, too
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@garblefart possibly only when they're wronged, not on behalf of others... pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/22/1203179109
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@garblefart what's the connection to polyamory?
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Hm... probably "tits cheating" isn't the best search term to learn about birds having affairs. Wait, that also sounds dirty.
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@garblefart that's more cultural than innate. first stab turns up theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/02/when-taking-multiple-husbands-makes-sense/272726/
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@garblefart (when I studied this at uni, we only really covered the Tibetan example, though it wasn't taken as an isolated case, just an eg)
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RT @darrenrichman: Morrissey at his most Morrissey with the ping-pong reply.
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@leighalexander @christinelove @MammonMachine me too, Leigh, me too. (Wasn't so much passing out as... I'll tell you this story in person)
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RT @JonnElledge: Actual genius from the Prince Charles cinema. As a Harold Ramis tribute, it's showing a double bill of Groundhog Day and G…
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@bfod that's a strong recommendation if ever I've heard one
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@leighalexander making dolla
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@mcclure111 @vogon Another way of approaching the same feature is Boo's "duck" or C#'s "dynamic"
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@mcclure111 @vogon Though that is the more bureaucratic way to get there, admittedly.
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This is wild arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613
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@NicklasNygren are you going to GDC?
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@NicklasNygren Saw you have your new game there, so I hoped... but oh well.
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@LewieP It allows devs to do spontaneous discounts on a whim, and it lessens their workload. That's p much it?
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RT @rare_basement: still time to participate! ♫ twitter's most hated songs by Amber Earnest spoti.fi/MBHs65 #NowPlaying
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@NicklasNygren aw, that sucks to hear (I assumed it was your fear of flying, but didn't realize it'd got worse).
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"It's about vampire tennis school girls having emotions on the moon" aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/vampire/vampire.html
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@martinhollis apparently only true on average! gyazo.com/4a9c4edcb2532cd698022e50243ce868
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@martinhollis it's a big universe! (Mainly it's just flipping me out because I'd never even considered it before)
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@smestorp @martinhollis it's weird to think the limiting factor is the lack of temperature gradients, not warmth itself...
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@smestorp @martinhollis also: lack of things that aren't hydrogen and helium